Wikipedia:Community portal

Community portal

Welcome to the community portal!

This page provides a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news about English Wikipedia. New to Wikipedia? See the contributing to Wikipedia page or our tutorial for everything you need to know to get started. For a listing of internal project pages of interest, see the department directory.

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Help desk

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Reference desk

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WikiProjects

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Community bulletin board

How to add to the community bulletin board

Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements.

Events and projects

Yearly or infrequent events

WikiProject Louisville's Derby 150 article development and backlog drive. Help WikiProject Louisville commemorate and celebrate the 150th Kentucky Derby by joining our article development and backlog drive taking place during the period of the Kentucky Derby Festival, April 20 – May 5, 2024. The purpose of this drive is to improve a corner of the Wikipedia related to and timed for this special rare anniversary.

Monthly or continuous events

Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month.
Guild of Copy Editors' editing blitz. The April 2024 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: all articles on the GOCE Requests page, and articles on the January 2023 and February 2023 backlog. It will begin on 14 April, 00:00 (UTC), and end on 20 April, 23:59 (UTC).
Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2023 Events: WP:WIR/EVENTS - updated monthly
The 100,000 Challenge. The quest to bring about 100,000 article improvements and creations globally through a series of 50,000/10,000/1000 Challenges for different regions and countries. This is a loose challenge, a list will not be maintained here, but the components will function independently on each of the subpages. Will be updated every week or two.
- The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge is a long term challenge to destub 50,000 articles on English Wikipedia for every country and topic. It may take decades to accomplish, it may take ten years, it all depends on how many people actively contribute.

**Meetups for April 2024** +/-
London 203	April 14, 2024 (2024-04-14)
Oxford 99	April 21, 2024 (2024-04-21)
San Diego 110	April 22, 2024 (2024-04-22)
North Carolina Earth Day	April 23, 2024 (2024-04-23)
Edinburgh 15	April 27, 2024 (2024-04-27)
BLT Office Hours	April 28, 2024 (2024-04-28)

**Meetups for May 2024** +/-
Auckland 22	May 4, 2024 (2024-05-04)
Leeds 6	May 4, 2024 (2024-05-04)
London 204	May 12, 2024 (2024-05-12)
US Mountain West online	May 14, 2024 (2024-05-14)
San Diego 111	May 20, 2024 (2024-05-20)
BLT Office Hours	May 26, 2024 (2024-05-26)

WikiProject notices

Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at The Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Please include your signature when adding a listing here.

WikiProject Outlines news:
- Outline drafts nearing completion include:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of jazz.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 10:15, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Vocaloid's proposal is seeking editors with interest in any Vocaloid related topic to join the project.

WikiProject Bendigo is currently seeking interested editors to join the project. Lotsw73 (talk) 05:03, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Operating systems (in proposal state) is looking for interested participants to support the creation of a regular WikiProject page.
Revive WikiProject United States governors. This WikiProject is dedicated to the leaders of the 50 U.S. states. If you agree, post a message on the WikiProject talk page.
WikiProject AI Cleanup has recently been started to combat the addition of problematic AI-generated content. Interested editors are encouraged to join! ARandomName123 (talk) 01:35, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Technical news

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [1][2]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [3][4]
Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [5]
A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [6]

Future changes

Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [7]

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